Thanks guys for writing your own endings. I don't think I will be running anything for a while. The next time I might be running stuff would be a one shot master of fallen fortress for the next generation lol. Something that doesn't require a long term commitment. Kinda busy with life in general with longer working hours and figuring out times to batch cook etc. And phone got busted due to getting caught in the rain over the weekend.
I cannot imagine free form play though I could be persuaded to simplify some of the rules if kids were involved.
As the party researches more into the codex of the three prescriptions, the manual of silence and the unified manual of understanding as well as the Falling Silk, the party realizes that they have bigger troubles on hand. Rose visibly cringes at the sight of any of the books, and Piotr begins to sink down into dumps. Realizing that their memories are not the price of their party members sanity, Winter works on trying to heal both Rose's and Pitor's shattered minds, and urges the party to abandon their research.
Dying in the dreamlands will result in a lesser madness in the waking world. I had already rolled earlier for Rose and Pitor's lesser madness quite some time back
You may open up GM notes. Each 1d9 is to designate what lesser madness you get
Winter eventually manages to heal both Rose and Piotr, as the Sellen Starling reaches Cassomir. The party decides to start their lives anew, on a blank slate in Cassomir, letting their past remain forgotten. Ignorance, afterall, was bliss, as their taste of knowledge was a bitter one.
Winter finds a temple of Pharasma in Cassomir, and offers to take Piotr in as an acolyte.
I thought about the whole thing over the weekend. These days my interest in D&D is dying off. Even the other game where I am only a player.
I also looked at our last attempt for recruitment. Frankly I feel that at the pace we're going (it's really slow), the caliber of the recruits we can find will not be very good. The problem with going too slowly is at least for me, I have the tendency to forget what I was supposed to be doing.
I'm also starting a new job soon so I have no idea how much time I will have available at a computer to post on paizo and frankly running a game from phone is not optimal at all. I feel that my abilities to conduct an enjoyable game have been detrimentally affected ever since I've moved to phone posting. It's sort of hard when trying to get longer posts on phone, making the game rather flat.
If you ask why I don't use PC - it's because the time I'm at a PC is when I'm at work and I don't feel comfortable in new jobs to be logging into game websites for posts. I thank all of you for staying this long and apologize that it didn't work out. I'll wrap stuff up over the next few days and close this campaign.
Tiff finds out according to a folio regarding extraplanar undead, the ghouls of the Dreamlands are far more social— though no less wicked—than their bestial kin in the waking world. They have rich histories and large communities led by royalty.
She starts perusing the other books, the codex of the three prescriptions and the unified manual of understanding.
She finds out a discourse on the dread Plateau of Leng explains that a more powerful form of ghoul inhabits regions where the Dreamlands connects to Leng. These Leng ghouls are shrewder than their lesser kin.
She eventually figures out the proper phrase that allows them to use the Dreamlands excursion occult ritual to reach the plateau of Leng.
The ship does not seem to understand or show any visible reaction to the party's words.
Tiff searches the Bloodwind, with the remaining sailors giving her a wide berth after she eviscerated one of them, finding a whole lot of provisions, barrels and barrels of water and a red-brown chest, which she determines is not trapped. On opening she finds a spellbook containing the following spells:
The party wonders if the ship even understands common as the threats do not appear to have any effect. The ship however, does allow Tiff, the master of magical artifacts, to board.
To force an intelligent artifact to submit it is will save vs ego of artifact
The party tries to board the Bloodwind, but the ship will have none of it, swinging its yardarm trying to grapple and toss the brave, valiant soul who tries.
Does anyone want to talk nasty to the ship ie, will save vs ego check vs magical artifacts?
I can't swim more then half breadth of a pool without needing to come out to take a breath so doing a perimeter underwater is quite the feat. As an archer your animal companion is happier in melee and you're happier at range so likely you'll be off your animal companion most of the time.
And I wasn't running 7h(though I can if I have to..ran a whole bloody night before), a lot of the terrain isn't runnable.
Didn't go as planned. I finished the race but it was too close for comfort. 7h 11 min for 30km in a race that has 8h cut off time. I'm really slow when it comes to technical Downslopes...
Having accepted the sailor's surrender, the party wakes themselves up, on the boat, with Winter going immediately to Piotr, holding his hand, "Are you all right?"She asks concernedly.
All of you level to 8, please proceed if you haven't done so yet
I'll be traveling to go Malaysia to...Run Cultra! 30km. Anyway expect minimal or no logins through the weekend as data is expensive over there until I check into the hotel (2nd day night).
Rose manages to punch the Captain and Garrosh shoots him one more time before he falls to the ground, rapidly collapsing into nothingness, leaving his gear consisting of an elixir, a magical scimitar, a green potion, his studded leather, rubies worth 5000gp and his battered tricone hat behind.
Later upon identification:
Tiff identifies the elixir as an elixir of hiding, the magical scimitar as a +2 scimitar, the studded leather as a +1 studded leather and the green potion as a potion of spider climb.
On seeing the captain disappear into nothingness and knowing they're not going to get paid, the sailor facing Tiff surrenders and drops his weapon. "There's no point in this continuing. You'll just slaughter me like you slaughtered my employer." He says as he drops his flail.
The captain dodges all of Rose's blows then Garrosh shoots him in the chest, on which he looks surprised for a moment then pulls out the arrow like it didn't hit anything vital. The other arrows go wide.
These guys have a chance to negate crits.
spell resistance:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9
Winter attempts to blast the captain again but is turned away by a yellow shield.
will:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
"Your puny magics don't fool me!"The Captain declares as he slashes at Rose. "And don't be fooled either, men, the violet lights aren't there!"
Tiff tears into the sailor with the flail, leaving a bloody corpse on the ground. The sailor with the longspear drops his longspear and pulls out his flail and tries to club Tiff with it.
Flail:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11
The two sailors in the pit decide to wait it out at the bottom.
Tiff badly wounds the sailor with her claws and horns and the sailor uses his flail on her, but misses her once and destroys an image on his backswing.39 DMG to yellow
Rose suddenly finds the area she is standing on become slippery, as the captain closes in and starts slashing at her with his scimitar and attempts to bite her, without success.
At higher levels a lot of things fly(which makes trip useless),or are huge/have multiple legs which makes tripping hard/next to impossible. The only stuff that scales from optimization standpoint would be dirty trick to blind(esp if you have a rogue in party) or grapple/pin/tie up cdg combo which can be a boss killer. Provided they don't have freedom of movement (but again there are tetori monks).
You find the staircase, but it's not glowing and touching it yields no result.
ref:1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16
The captain dodges most of Rose's blows except for a single claw that does not seem to hit anything vital. The captain also dodges Violet's blast of holy energy. 61 DMG done to captain. The 58 earlier was a typo error
Winter snarls at the Captain, "Burn in Pharasma's light!", as she unleashes a burst of radiance onto him, but it is blocked by a yellow shield.Spell resistance
spell resistance:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
58 DMG done to captain. Rose and Garrosh up
"Pah dispelling mirror images is not as easy as it looks."The captain retorts.
As Ann tries to run through the captain, he strikes her with his scimitar, but it bounces off Piotr's mage armor.
slash:1d20 + 17 ⇒ (4) + 17 = 21
Garrosh manages to strike the Captain with his arrows twice while Rose manages to land a single claw. The captain dodges the remaining arrows and attacks. Piotr also manages to catch the captain on his backswing.
47 DMG done to captain
Not sure why a 5ft step would provoke AOO?
The captain takes a 5 foot step towards Piotr as some of his wounds heal, uttering the incantation for the spell vanish, his scimitar swinging.
The captain seems to vanish for a moment before running Piotr through his guts then coldly running his blade through the fallen Piotr as Winter screams a loud, "Noooooo!"
Spell combat vanish, to hit flatfooted ac. Extra damage from sneak attack
You feel a sharp pain in your abdomen as you look down to see the Captain's scimitar sticking out of it. You hear Winter scream, "Noooooo!"
as you feel your knees buckle as you fall into darkness..then you awaken on the Sellen Starling.
??:1d9 ⇒ 6
?:1d4 ⇒ 4
The captain then turns to strike Rose with his scimitar, but misses.
You can make your full attacks, Piotr. Ann needs to become corporeal(some action on your part, Piotr?) Before she can harm anything that isn't incorporeal, so point is moot.
Ann can step into Piotr's space without causing cover issues.
Take 21 dmg, heal 15 HP,now take 37.Each time you enter the Dreamlands, your resources, including HP, mirror your Golarion HP, which would have been full.
Rose manages to land 2 claws on the ghostly boatswain and Garrosh sends an arrow through her spectral form. Piotr slices her with his magical sword as Ann finishes her off with one stab of her spectral dagger.
"You'll pay for that!"The captain screams with rage as he jumps over the deck to engage Piotr, scimitar cackling and lands a solid strike. 37 DMG to Piotr
Tiff realizes that the Boatswain is a wraith and is incorporeal. Garrosh realizes that wraiths can drain constitution with their touch and any creatures killed by such constitution drain will rise again as a wraith, and that they are powerless in the presence of sunlight. Violet realizes that wraiths can sense the lifeforce of living creatures. Blindsense, except it works on living creatures only
Tiff realizes that the Captain is a Denizen of leng and has spell resistance.
Tiff manages to land a claw on the creature and it dissolves into nothingness.Winter casts blessing of fervor on the party as Garrosh, Ann and Violet shake off their fear
Everyone except Tiff has 1 round to prepare for Bloodwind arrival. see slide 21 on how the Bloodwind will approach
Tiff's magic missiles tear into it's insubstantial form as Rose lands a claw on it. It gives a final ditch effort in trying to kill Rose with what Tiff recognizes as Phantasmal Killer. Piotr's sword stroke is dodged by the creature as Garrosh, Ann and Violet flee screaming. The Bloodwind draws steadily closer.2 more rounds to arrival
Rose sees in her head it ripping her heart out, but dismisses it as an impossibility.
A frightened creature flees from the source of its fear as best it can. If unable to flee, it may fight. A frightened creature takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. A frightened creature can use special abilities, including spells, to flee; indeed, the creature must use such means if they are the only way to escape.
Garrosh's arrow pokes a little hole in the feargaunt. 84 DMG done
Realizing it might have taken on more then it could chew, the feargaunt attempts to use a cone of fear to thin out it's attackers ranks. The Bloodwind continues to move closer.
